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The Ascent (Russian: Восхождение, tr. Voskhozhdeniye) is a 1977 Soviet drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko and made at Mosfilm. Shepitko and Yuri Klepikov's screenplay was adapted from the 1970 novel Sotnikov by Vasil Bykaŭ. The film was shot in black-and-white in January 1974 near Murom, Russia, in appalling winter conditions.
Apr 29, 2022 · With stark, visceral cinematography that pits blinding white snow against pitch-black despair, The Ascent finds poetry and transcendence in the harrowing trials of war.
- 110 min
Apr 2, 1977 · The Ascent: Directed by Larisa Shepitko. With Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova. Two Soviet partisans on a mission to gather food contend with the winter cold, the occupying Germans, and their own psyches.
- (10K)
- Drama, War
- Larisa Shepitko
- 1977-04-02
Jan 7, 2022 · The Ascent (1977), by Larisa Shepitko (With English Subtitles). Two Soviet soldiers leave their starving unit to search a nearby farm for supplies. When they see the Germans have reached it first...
- 109 min
- 26.9K
- Gianluca Fantoni
The Ascent takes place during the Second World War and follows two Soviet partisans ( Boris Plotnikov and Vladimir Gostyukhin) who, while attempting to gather supplies from nearby Belarusian villages, are captured and imprisoned by German soldiers.
Synopsis. Two Soviet partisans leave their starving band to get supplies from a nearby farm. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls. Videos: Trailers, Teasers, Featurettes. Cast. Boris Plotnikov. Sotnikov. Vladimir Gostyukhin.
- 111 min
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Feb 17, 2020 · The film is set in Nazi-occupied Belarus and follows the story of two partisans (Soviet resistance fighters): Nikolai Rybak (Gostiukhin) and Boris Sotnikov (Plotnikov). A German counterinsurgency detachment surrounds the starving partisans and refugees in a frozen forest.
